RTE Radio 1: The Ryan Tubridy Show

state mouthpiece says its bad but at least its not North Korea

Ha ha ha . At least we're not in North Korea ha ha. We're not so bad ho ho I get up at half 5 you know . Green shoots in the garden soon ha ha . We'll all be fine I read books you know . Aren't I great for making ye feel better 🤔

andy lee , by all accounts a great person, but sadly i felt he was using that reputation to attempt tolure katie to the murky depths of MTK boxing.

Opens the show with the usual forced jollity and laughing only to swiftly move onto how he feels so weepy lately and welling up more these days, followed by a story of a dog having to be put to sleep.....jesus...

Don't forget couple of mentions of toyshow .

He's the toyman you know 😊. Even though he hardly mentions that

Random caller from Sweden. Very strange.

Chats a bit then bang, there it is.

"My mum had cancer".

Sweet Jesus what it this guys obsession with cancer and death? It's very strange. He could have had a feel good caller on....but no.

Plenty of good eggs. And bad eggs (Boris). Load of waffle and bit of death. Bit of cancer . To make him feel good. Just a normal day. Toy show hasn't been mentioned yet

Starts off the week being teary and saying people need to mind themselves coming up to Xmas, so does he hold off from cancer and death stories for the week. Ha ha 😂 course he doesn't. Wierd

The guy that was filling the slot before morning Ireland sounded exactly like Tubridy 😪

There's so much sadness in the world, but also so much kindness. So many empty chairs this Christmas. We think it's bad what we're going through, you could be in a concentration camp, like in WW2. He's watching Band of Brothers at the moment, so is on his mind. Says he's just riffing on stuff.

Suprised we havnt had any "I had tears streaming down my face while putting up the Christmas tree" yet.

Edit: the next email from a 'listener' was shedding a tear as they write.

And a death story 😂

I'll leave it tomorrow for the last death cancer show of the year 🤟

Happy Christmas 🎄🎄⛄ everyone

On his RTE Radio One slot Tubs explained that he had taken a moment of reflection to be thankful after he finished watching the dramatic TV miniseries Band of Brothers, which follows a US regiment in World War Two.

He told listeners: "When you add Christmas to a pandemic and to your own lives and stories, for a lot of people this is the greatest time of the year, no question, let's not forget that, for a lot of people it's beautiful.

"And then for a lot of others there's an empty chair, which should have been occupied, and there's an empty space in your heart.

"I'm just riffing here on what's happening in the world as I see it, there's a lot of goodness among the sadness, there's a lot of gratitude. In the most ridiculous way I was watching the end of Band of Brothers, looking at them in their foxholes fighting against the Nazi peril and thinking god help us."

But watching that and the last Great Generation and the horror they went through, just last night in the episode I was watching they liberated the camps, and you're just thinking 'Christ, what people went through'.

"That is not to belittle what we are going through but nevertheless there is context for things with regard to history."

Otherwise known as spoofing and doing absolutely no preparation.